by Ian | Jun 17, 2019 | Building Surveys, Buying a home, Conveyancing, Estate Agents, Home Buyer Surveys, Home Condition Reports, House Prices, Selling your home
Interpreting surveys Surveyors are sometimes regarded as the ‘Doctor Deaths’ of the property world, with barely a positive word to say. But it’s important to bear in mind that the surveyor’s job is to highlight defects and flag up future maintenance...
by Ian | Jun 10, 2019 | Building Surveys, Buying a home, Conveyancing, Estate Agents, Home Buyer Surveys, Home Condition Reports, House Prices, Selling your home
What type of surveyor? Surveyors come in assorted shapes and sizes. Anyone can call themselves a ‘surveyor’, a title that’s sometimes adopted by double-glazing salesmen for enhanced credibility. Qualified surveyors, however, are always the chartered variety...
by Ian | May 22, 2019 | Buying a home, Conveyancing, Estate Agents, Getting A Mortgage, House Prices, Mortgages, Selling your home, Valuations
If the mortgage valuer ‘downvalues’ your property it could blow the whole deal out of the water. Banks and Building Societies normally appoint chartered surveyors to carry out valuations for mortgage lending purposes. This is a crucial stage because...
by Ian | Mar 9, 2019 | Buying a home, Estate Agents, House Prices, Making An Offer
You now have one single overriding objective: to get to exchange of contracts as quickly as possible. Once you’ve exchanged you’re pretty much legally home and dry, and can afford to relax a little, but until then every extra day of unnecessary delay means a greater...
by Ian | Oct 18, 2018 | Buying a home, Buying a home privately, Estate Agents
So you’re thinking of doing away with the estate agents and going out on your own, we walk you through the best approach. To get the house you really want means trying every angle. A small but significant number of properties are advertised privately. To save a...
